The geographic mosaic of sex and the Red Queen.

Journal article

The maintenance of sexual reproduction in natural populations is a pressing question for evolutionary biologists. Under the "Red Queen" hypothesis, coevolving parasites reduce the reproductive advantage of asexual reproduction by adapting to infect clonal genotypes after they become locally common. In addition, the "geographic mosaic" theory of coevolution proposes that structured populations of interacting species can produce selection mosaics manifested as coevolutionary "hot spots" and "co...

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Authors: King, K; Delph, L; Jokela, J; Lively, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Current biology : CB
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 17
• Pages: 1438-1441
• Publication date: 2009-09-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.062
• EISSN: 1879-0445
• ISSN: 0960-9822
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Adaptation, Physiological; Snails; Ducks; Reproduction, Asexual; Host-Parasite Interactions; Geography; Female; Male; Feeding Behavior; Trematoda; Biological Evolution